This revelation connects to the movie's opening prologue and made available to us by Keegan Connor Tracy as Daciana, an eccentric gypsy-like woman with an Eastern European accent. In a desperate attempt to needlessly complicate the plot, the script introduces a twist to the original by claiming Charlotte comes from a family bloodline that vampires having been coveting for centuries. Arguably, the most absurdly laughable is the competitive tension within the fencing team where the captain (Olivia Cheng) forces freshmen to a disgustingly humiliating hazing ritual, aided by Nicole's callous-for-absolutely-no-reason-friend Eliza (C.C. Robert Moloney is Charlotte's advisor, but he, too, is blind to his student's needs. Ryan Kennedy provides a likeable love-interest as Chris, the guy who might save Charlotte from her dangerously erotic dreams, but only ends up being fodder to the mostly unseen bloodsucker. Charlotte's dorm roommate Nicole (Kaniehtiio Horn) is the caring and understanding friend but does absolutely nothing to help when Charlotte is clearly having problems. In fact, there's very little worth caring about in any of the characters surrounding our supposed heroine - they could all die, and actually they do, but it has zero effect on the direction of the narrative. Yet, in spite of all this, we never feel sorry for Charlotte or much care for her ordeal. She sometimes wakes up in the most unexpected places and dreams of either a co-player from the fencing team or her English Lit professor (Victor Webster), who for some unexplained reason teaches more about monsters than anything related to literature. It's only the first week of school, and she's already tormented by disturbing but sensually erotic visions. In this mind-numbing snore-fest, the filmmakers try to touch on similar themes as the chaste and terribly timid Charlotte (Sharon Hinnendael) is continuously pressured to come out of her sheltered existence while adjusting to her new college life. However, that's about the extent of any appreciable quality to be found in the 1995 movie which was quite the rage at the time, making it a popular hit on home video. While it failed to be a decent vampire flick or anything remotely resembling a horror picture, at the least the plot touched on some interesting ideas about sexuality and self-discovery, enjoying the image of the vampire as a figure of liberated, uninhibited and guilt-free sexual desire. The only memorable thing about the original was seeing Alyssa Milano distance herself from her good-girl TV persona by playing an innocent college good-girl that bares it all. You know it's bad when a remake of an already bad movie is twice as horrible as its predecessor.
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